I just ran into this sentence in Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding You’re probably used to type systems in languages like C and Java and marveled at its ambiguity. “Used” and “type” have several different…

The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a Supreme Court brief re Bilski, and I loved this idea within it: “The source code of a program which performs the steps described in a software patent is distinguishable from the literal…

I have an application with a main window. It opens a find dialog that can remain open, i.e. it is not modal. I mark it as STAY_ON_TOP so it does not disappear behind the application window. The application pops up…